Cms Blue Button Finops
FinOps view of Blue Button 2.0 spend. The API is a free U.S. government service operated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - there is no invoice from CMS at any usage level, in sandbox or production. The real costs of consuming Blue Button 2.0 sit on the consumer side - engineering time to pass CMS production approval (privacy policy, terms of service, demo), infrastructure to run the OAuth consent flow and store beneficiary-consented FHIR data, and the compliance overhead of handling Medicare claims data (breach notification, dormant-account, and third-party vendor obligations from the CMS terms).
Cms Blue Button Finops is the FinOps profile for CMS Blue Button 2.0 on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.
It defines 4 billable meters, billed in USD, on a none cycle, and pricing category free.
The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.
Tagged areas include Blue Button, CARIN, Medicare, FHIR, and Claims Data.
Framework Alignment
FOCUS Columns
Meters
Sources
- https://bluebutton.cms.gov/
- https://bluebutton.cms.gov/production-access/
- https://bluebutton.cms.gov/terms/
- https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
Work with this as data
Every finops artifact here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.
MCP server
One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.
https://apis.io/mcp
Tools for finops
4 MCP tools reach this
find_finopsBrowse and filter every finops artifact in the catalog.apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/finops/cms-blue-button-finops"curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/finops?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.